St. Anthony Hall - Membership

Membership

Chapters of St. Anthony Hall demonstrate a range of membership formats and reputations. Whether known on their campuses as social fraternities, clubs, secret societies, or by other models, most nonetheless publicly articulate a literary focus. The chapters exhibit diverse characteristics with regard to campus presence, secrecy, and exclusivity.

Yale became co-educational in 1969 and, in 1971, St. A's became the earliest Yale society to accept women as members. The Yale chapter's action also accomplished, albeit not without friction, co-education as a permitted status within the national fraternity. Charlie Scott, a member of St. A's at the University of North Carolina became the first person of color to pledge any fraternity at that campus, in 1967.

• Other St. A's chapters subsequently became co-ed at the following schools: Columbia University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MIT, and Trinity College.
• The chapters at Brown University, Princeton University, and the University of Rochester, all inactive since the 19th century, were re-founded as co-ed chapters in 1983, 1986, and 2010, respectively.
• The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Mississippi and the University of Virginia chapters remain all-male. St. Anthony Hall chapters accommodate each others' different policies, and the national organization lists both types on its website.